8:25 PM,
Apr. 18, 2014

This photo, showing my niece and I, was placed at the top of my 2013 Christmas card with the caption 'Not my child.'

Written by

Brittny Goodsell
Once Upon a Zion

I used to be Mary Freakin' Poppins. Spoonful of sugar? I didn't need it. Desperate parents routinely called me to babysit. My record is watching eight children at one time. Sure, many mothers around Southern Utah raise eight kids or more on a daily basis but I was only 15 at the time. So, I'm gonna say my babysitting was top notch.

When I arrived at the neighbor's house, my babysitting prowess was announced by my fashion choice of gross, tapered mom jeans from the 1980s as I toted a tattered box dubbed 'Brittny's babysitting kit,' which was decorated with construction paper tulips. Because, you ...